BeOS, BeOS, BeOS, BeOS! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE OS! The *Be* OPERATING SYSTEM! NOT BIOS! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!
This is the BeOS forum. BeOS. Also referred to as "the BeOS”. That's "Be" as in "Be, Inc." and "OS" as in "Operating System".
I realize the words "BeOS" and "BIOS" are very similar--there's only one letter and a change of case between the two, but they are spelled differently and have quite different meanings, not unlike the words "shot" and "s---" or "car" and "cat".
BeOS is an operating system from Be, Inc. BIOS is an acronym for "Basic Input/Output System".
Don't feel bad. A LOT of people apparently are unable to make this distinction or figure it out from the many messages already posted to this forum. You're certainly not alone. A LOT of people have been mistaking "BeOS", the operating system, and BIOS, the acronym for "Basic Input/Output System". This has been going on since this forum was started.
It got pretty bad a few months ago, when it was happening several times a week. I had hoped that people had started READING some of the posts and paying attention to the all-important difference in spelling before posting to this forum, but apparently not.
It's a shame there isn't a hardware forum, but maybe that'll come some day.
Honestly, sometimes I wish Be had named their operating system something completely different, something that sounded strikingly dissimilar to most other words commonly used in conjunction with computer technology--maybe something like "The Really Cool Operating System" or "The Operating System from Be". Cumbersome, I realize, but it would avoid the BeOS/BIOS confusion that obviously befalls so many.
